Monday, July 17, 2006

No Vietnamese Ever Called Me A Nigger

Mohammed Ali is thought to have said the title of this post. Unfortunately as great as this soundbite is, it was likely never said publicly, on record*. However it is possible he may have said it privately. It was well known to the Boomers at the time but forgotten to Generation X and the Echo that Cassius Clay refused millitary service. He risked his career and everything he had in order to stand up for what he believed in. He knew the difference between two men who agree to hit each other with padded mittens and going to the other side of the world to kill strangers. What Ali probably said was this:

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would cost me millions of dollars. But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality. If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail, so what? We’ve been in jail for 400 years.

Which he said in Redemption Song: Muhammad Ali and the Spirit of the Sixties (1999) by Mike Marqusee

22 Comments:

i get his point, but im a generation X'r and i know full well the heroic demonstration of courage Mohommed Ali displayed and maybe its because i am an African Born here in Amerikka, maybe its simply because im a boxing fan? i dunno but almost all of my GX aquaintances know full well in fact as far as im concerned us GXr's may be the last hope in this world addmittedly most of us have our heads up our asses but, knowing me and my small circle of "comrades" im confident that we will continue to struggle against the Bullshit goin down in the world today

I am also from Generation X and am also quite aware of what Ali said (and what they say he didn't say - if he didn't say those famous words, many older friends and older relatives of mine and acquaintances of theirs definitely did)

Maybe if a man from New Orleans chose to run for president and tell our Dear Leader to his face: "Ain't no Iraqi ever left me to drown...", then our generation could have its own Ali moment.

What does this have to do with race? These wars are illegal not too mention the gov't caging peaceful protestors, banning books like "America Deceived" by E.A. Blayre III and illegally wire-tapping all phones. Whatever race you are, these are 2 illegal wars based on a false-flag operation known as 9/11. Last link (before Google Books is forced to drop the book):http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-38523-0

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